Core Sets: Save Your Attraction Flowers Via Combinations

Identifying Attraction Flower Combinations

It is possible to attract certain species of moths from core sets without using all 3 types of attraction flowers. This is done by reviewing the flower combinations and picking out the ones that stand alone from the others.

The best example would be the #80 Promethea Silkmoth from the Mythic Set. So far it is the only Legendary moth in the entire Flutterpedia. If you only place a 100% Legendary flower on your incubator, while ignoring flowers for its region and size, you will get the Promethea Silkmoth right off the bat! (Update: With the introduction of new core sets, certain moths will no longer be guaranteed via combinations.)

To see which flower combinations are required for each moth, click on the moth in the Flutterpedia.

Here are other possible combinations in Starlight that requires 2 flower types or less.

• #5 Scarlet Phaudid - Hoshi Common Small
• #8 Coppery Dysphania - Hoshi Rare Medium
• #15 Sweet Potato Hornworm - Hawkmoth Common Large
• #15 Sweet Potato Hornworm - Hawkmoth Common Large
• #16 Elephant Hawkmoth - Hawkmoth Rare Medium
• #120 - Marama Common Small
• #120 - Marama Common Small
• #123 - Marama Rare Medium
• #123 - Marama Rare Medium
• #124 - Marama Epic Large
• #125 - Marama Legendary Large
• #9 Ruby Tiger - Silva Common Small
• #11 Tau Emperor - Silva Rare Large
• #11 Tau Emperor - Silva Rare Large
• #11 Tau Emperor - Silva Rare Large
• #13 Garden Tiger Moth - Silva Epic Medium
• #43 Phileta Tiger Moth - Chausiku Rare Medium
• #44 Veined Monkey - Chausiku Epic Medium
• #45 Pink Dalcera - Estrella Common Small
• #47 Anomalous Bluetail - Estrella Rare Small
• #47 Anomalous Bluetail - Estrella Rare Small
• #49 Diva Moth - Estrella Epic Medium
• #76 Hieroglyphic Moth - Mythic Common Small
• #76 Hieroglyphic Moth - Mythic Common Small
• #78 Pandora Spinx - Mythic Rare Medium
• #79 Polyphemus Moth - Mythic Epic Large
• #79 Polyphemus Moth - Mythic Epic Large
• #80 Promethea Silkmoth - Mythic Legendary Large
• #22 Venezuelan Poodle Moth - Apoyo Common Small
• #23 Rosy Maple Moth - Apoyo Uncommon Small
• #24 Pink-striped Oakwoem Moth - Apoyo Rare Medium
• #25 Common Australian Aenetus - Apoyo Epic Medium

If you are a beginner who has yet to unlock the rest of the core sets, you're in luck because the 2 moths listed below have unique combinations due to a reduced number of moths available.

• Flutterpedia Score 450- 3990: #124 Marama Epic Large
• Flutterpeida Score 450 - 3990: #125 Marama Legendary Large
• Flutterpedia Score 0 - 790: #15 Sweet Potato Hornworm - Hawkmoth Common Large
• Flutterpedia Score 800 - 1490: #13 Garden Tiger Moth - Silva Epic Medium (without Apoyo #25)

The same theory applies for the Apoyo set where moths unlock at different Social levels.

• Level 10 - 19: #22 Venezuelan Poodle Moth - Apoyo Common Small

Lacking Region Flowers?

Don't have enough Region flowers for your next attraction? You may want to gamble on a random attraction with Rarity and/or Size flowers only. The success rate may not be guaranteed, but it still raises the odds of getting the particular moth you want.

Good luck at saving precious flowers from your flora inventory~!


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Premium Decorations: Are They Useful?

Considering that moths in Starlight do not have abilities, this is quite a nifty addition to the game! However looking at the prices of these decos, it might take some time before anyone can collect them all. So if you are a semi-FTP player who wants to make the most out of your Glowbucks / money, this is the prefect review for you. I will be ranking these Premium Decorations in the order of their usefulness, from the least useful to the best buy.

Well... the term "usefulness" is pretty subjective, so let me clarify by saying that the word "useful" here means the deco can help you to gain something to make progress in your game which you otherwise would not be able to. Just assume that this review is written from the perspective of a stingy-ass player who always want to squeeze blood out of stone. They are just my opinions, feel free to disagree. :)

Ok lets get rolling~!

No. 6

Parrot Flower

Screenshot by Clarissa Chew

This is deco ranks at the bottom in terms of usefulness because it doesn't even give you a single honeydew coin, but it is the most Fun to have deco in the whole set~! This guy lets you customise your pollen flowers the way you want them to be. Apparently the colours of pollen flowers in your forest are randomly assigned when you unlock them, so this ability lets you fix that by rotating it among a series of colours, once every 5 days. I am not sure of the specific order yet, so I will update again when I discover them all~!

UPDATE: Check out the available colours here!

No. 5

Moon Orchid

Screenshot by Tate Morin, Flutter DYNASTY

No matter how people criticise that this deco is stinking useless, this flower is my ABSOLUTE favourite. Not only I am a stingy-ass player, I am also a lazy-ass person! This deco helps you to harvest honeydew from moths which are ready for collection with a cool down of 4 hours (you need to activate the ability manually yourself), and I am SO GLAD that Runaway added this feature! Imagine when you wake up in the morning and open up your game, especially on a tiny phone screen, you need to click... click... click... click...click... move to another forest section... click... click... cli... whoops thats a misclick... reclick...  arghh misclicked again...  ***flips table***

And yeps, normal fireflies still spawn as normal when you use this ability, and when they all appear at the same time you get an explosive sound effect! TADAA~! xD

No. 4

Red Slipper

Currency in SGD

If you have pretty good time management skills, you need not rely on this at all. Eventually, you will achieve the same results when your caterpillar hatches from the egg. AND it costs $$$ too! 

However, this deco may just save your life one day, when you are running low on time during an exclusive moth event. It is also a little appealing to casual players who just can't wait for their babies to hatch. In future, if Runaway releases challenging events in which players are required to rush through time, this deco may finally see light and rise up the ranks.

No. 3

Singing Orchid

Screenshot by 童彤, Flutter DYNASTY

Finally a deco from the Premium set that actually gives you stuff! Yay for free coins... wait what? That's it?

It seems like if you use this ability normally, you can gain an extra few thousand coins per day. Oh wells, considering that you need to be a zillionare to fully unlock your forest, we can't say no to extra coins can we?

Well... that is if you use it normally. Do not underestimate the power of stingy-ass players! If you make a hoard of legendary moths fly in circles around the same spot, you can trigger more harvests with this ability! Muahahaha~! Tho after that I got extremely lazy and can't be bothered to do it again. Zzzzz...

No. 2

Red Plumeria

Screenshot by Jessi Flutter, Flutter DYNASTY

A.K.A The Chopper. It clears one-fifth of an expansion foliage, meaning that it only takes away 1 out of 5 leafs required to fully open a spot. This helps when it feels like it is going to take foreverrrrrrrr to fully expand your forest, although some might argue that you will get there eventually. There is no need to rush to hoard an army of Red Plumerias because once you have maxed out your forest, they become useless instantly. 

And finally.... *drumroll*... The King of all Decorations!

No. 1

Star Lotus

Currency in SGD

Like its name, this gorgeous fellow is a star among the other decos! This flower simply floats in all our drools, mainly due to its pricetag that could potentially hypnotize anyone into an instant noodles diet for the rest of the week.

Needless to say, this deco is perfect for perfecting any moth, especially flutters from the limited edition event sets or the Zodiac collection. 

Sigh... Ramen anyone?

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥ 

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Night

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Visiting Moths: Collecting Past Event Sets

Whee yay~! First official guide for the blog~! :D

How does collecting Visiting Moths help me?

If you are a fairly new player or if you have missed out some of the previous events, you can pay Visiting Moths to lay eggs to complete past event sets for decoration rewards. These special decos earned from events have abilities, some of which are useful and may help you with future gameplay.

Each event set has 3 decoration rewards. If you collect at least 1 of each moth in the set, you get the 1st deco. If you perfect all the moths in the set by fusing 5 copies of each moth and feeding them with pollen to Level 5, you earn the 2nd deco. However, the 3rd and final deco is exclusive to players who perfected the moths during the event duration itself. It is not sure if Runaway will re-release them in future.


But the cost to lay an egg is so egg-pensive!

Yea they can get pricey. The cost is determined by the rarity of the moth:

Legendary - 500 Glowbucks

Epic - 350 Glowbucks

Rare - 200 Glowbucks

Uncommon - 100 Glowbucks

Common - 50 Glowbucks

If you have an Egg Layer deco (lays a free egg very 7 days), you can buy 1 copy of each visiting moth and use the deco to perfect your moths over time. (You cannot use the Egg Layer ability on the Visiting Moth itself, it would be nice if it actually works but sorry nope. :P)

Screenshot by Peggy Fornea, Flutter DYNASTY

Weekend Bonus Events - Half Price Egg-Laying

The good news is, Half Price Egg Laying applies to Visiting Moths! This means the Legendary moth that you are eyeing will be 250 Glowbucks instead of 500 during the event! Look out for such Weekend Bonus events on your game calendar!


How often will I get a Visiting Moth?

They will only visit you when you are in your game, so do not worry about missing a Visiting Moth if you are offline. When they do visit you, you get a notification and they will hang around for an hour.

I've heard that if you buy an egg from a Visiting Moth, you will get another visitor the next day. However if you ignore the visitor, it takes about 4 days for them to visit you again.
UPDATE: Due to changes in the game, Visiting Moths should now grace your forest every 24 hours, regardless of their egg purchases.

The Visiting Moth that you will get is totally random, and usually you should get a moth that you have not discovered yet.

UPDATE: Check out a new guide on Frequency of Visiting Moths!


Weekend Bonus Events - Moth Mania

Look out for Weekend Bonus events like Moth Mania, where you can get a Visiting Moth every hour!


Which event sets should I go for?

If you have limited Glowbucks, it is understandable that you may be picky in choosing which moths to buy. If you want something useful which helps you with future Wisp events, go for moths in the Boom set. If you want a Gift Resetter to speed up your progress in the Apoyo core set, perfect the Hanwi set. It's up to you really, you can also simply pick the prettiest looking deco for your forest~!

The entire list of event moth sets and the deco abilities are listed in the archives here and here, so you can choose which one to concentrate on and estimate the costs at a glance.

It takes time, effort and a lot of patience to get these pretty flutters. Good luck and have fun~!


Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Night

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Firefly Events: What You Need To Know & Do

Screenshot by Makaylah McCrossen

During firefly events in Starlight, event fireflies will be available. Collect honeydew from your moths to make these fireflies pop up, and feed them to Trevor for event flowers in order to attract the special flutters in the set!


Why are there so few event fireflies?

Chances are you are doing things wrong. During the event a preset number of event treats will spawn at regular intervals. Some people call this a Flush Cycle. You will need to find out how long is the cycle for the particular event and how many fireflies spawn at each cycle.

For the previous Osten event, 3 event fireflies spawn every 3 hours. Later Runaway shortened the cycle to 2 hours. The Fan Rong event had 4 purple treats every 3 hours. Luckily, there are helpful players in online communities who will share these information, so look out for them! :)

(The current trend for flush cycles in firefly events are 4 event treats after 3 hours.)


How to finish the event without spending real money?

1) Set alarms

Keep coming back into the game after each cycle to collect your fireflies. The fireflies don’t accumulate offline so even if you come back into the game after a day or two, you only complete 1 cycle and have to wait for the next one again. Set a timer, or an alarm so you don’t forget.

2) Have a couple of unleveled moths with the shortest cooldown times

After each cycle, when you come back into the game, you will be wanting to collect all of the event fireflies, so you need to trigger as many harvests as possible till you get them all.

Unleveled beginner moths (eg. Yellow Furry Legs) have short cooldowns and you can harvest them every few seconds. In case you are missing the last firefly spawn, you can stay in the game and keep harvesting till it drops into your forest. This also means that you need not worry about collecting your honeydew before the flush cycle is complete. You can even collect all event treats from a single Yellow Furry Leg from multiple harvests every few seconds!

3) Clear your Cage regularly

The fireflies will not spawn if Trevor's treat cage is stuffed full. The maximum number of treats it can hold is 10, and this applies to both purple and normal fireflies. So for example if you have 4 purple fireflies and 6 normal fireflies, the new event treats cannot spawn.

If your cage is full, you will get a notification to clear it whenever a firefly tries to spawn. When that happens, you have lost a firefly. You will then have to wait for the next flush cycle to get more.

4) Pick up the event treats before they poof

When I didn't pay attention to my game and left my purple fireflies hanging around in the forest, they disappeared when I came back! Just in case I was imagining things, I tested it out by leaving a few of them alone after a flush. When I re-login a few minutes later, they were gone once more! So make sure to collect them immediately and store them in your cage!

5) Concentrate on the Rarest & Hardest moth first, and work backwards

Save your egg laying abilities or glowbucks for the last legendary creature first. Then work backwards as you progress in the event. If you are able to complete the hardest moth within the event, chances are you should have no problem tackling the rest of the set.

6) Keep making pollen

To perfect the entire set, you need to hatch and grow 5 copies of each moth, then fuse them together and feed them with pollen till they hit max Level 5. So naturally you will be needing a whole ton of pollen.

Keep making pollen till you burst your pollen capacity even if your creatures are not ready for feeding yet, so when they finally emerge you can make them feast immediately.

If you are low on honeydew, I suggest that you concentrate on using the cheapest pollen option only, they accumulate pretty fast every 30 seconds and you won’t blow a hole in your pocket, instead all you need is some patience and time.

Click here if you want to know how much pollen you need to level up event moths.

7) Prepare in advance, plan ahead

For events with short durations, save up your special abilities before the event starts so you can make the most out of them.

8) Buying attraction flowers vs Egg Laying

In case you are running out of time, or simply just want that last 10% flower so you can cook your next egg, you can choose to buy event flowers with Glow/Flutterbucks. Go to your flower inventory and select a particular flower to see how much it costs. So if you have a handful of bucks saved up from watching all that Florida Tree Snail videos, you can put them to good use!

Before you spend anything, remember to compare costs between buying flowers / paying to lay an egg / paying to hurry an egg layer ability, to see which one is cheaper and more cost effective.


10%? 20%? 50%? 100%?

Each to its own. I personally collect all treats and use 100% event attraction flowers only. 50% or lower percentage flowers have a tendency to be evil... veryyyyy evil. :K


Hopefully this helps you along in your Starlight Firefly event journey~! If you have other tips, or if I missed out anything, do share and I’ll try to revise this guide accordingly.


Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥ 

Cheers, 
Night


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Fan Rong Firefly Event: Moth Set and Deco Abilities

This event is in line with Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year that falls on 28th January 2016.

Moth Set

#85 Female Drury's Jewel

 #86Yellow Emerald

#87 Chalcosiine Day-flyer

#88 Tropical Swallowtail

#89 Male Chinese Moon

Decoration Rewards & Abilities

Cosmetic deco. Yay for exploding stardust~!

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This feels like Runaway's Ang Pao giveaway in the game. Lol~! So instead of giving you red packets during the Chinese New Year, they give you a deco that lets you get more Honeydew coins! Earns you maybe an extra 1k coins every half a day if you use it on a legendary moth, tho not something to go crazy over. It also gives your moth a sparkling aura.

The 4th egg hurrier released in Starlight. 

Deco Visuals

Made by Lizzie Flutter from Flutter DYNASTY

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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Android: How To Clear Your Cache

In case your Florida Tree Snail refuses to play videos, of if you have any bugs/errors hampering your game, the first step of troubleshooting is usually clearing your game's cache and relaunching the app to see if the problem is fixed.

Clearing Game Cache

Here are the steps you can follow:

1) Close the game & go to the Settings in your phone

2) In your Settings menu, look for Applications (or your Application Manager). Then search for Starlight/Flutter and click on it

3) Look for the "Clear Cache" button and click on it.

Do not click on "Clear Data" by accident if you are not intending to do so, or else you will have to redownload all the game updates when you open up the app. 

4) For some devices, you may have to search for the "Clear Cache" button in one of the menu options on your Applications Manager

After you click on Starlight in your Applications Manager check the "Storage" tab.

Ok then re-load the game and see if the issue is fixed. If the problem still persists, you may have to reinstall the game, or send in a ticket to Runaway Support.

Clearing Cache Partition

Some users have suggested clearing your device's cache partition to get rid of unnecessary data. A cache partition is basically a temporary space used by the device for downloading temporary files it needs when installing apps and such. It can also store logs, remembered bits from various apps, or left over files from before your last Android update. These old data may be the cause of errors popping up in your devices.

The steps needed to clear a cache partition varies across devices. You may need to consult Mr.Google for instructions. For a more detailed explanation & guide, check out this page here. Just be careful when entering the system recovery menu so that you don't accidentally do something you don't intend to.

Hopefully your problem gets fixed soon!

Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥ 

Cheers, 

Night

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Bumblebee Dance!

I knew this furry little fellow secretly has his moves when I caught him moonwalking to a pollen flower by accident!

Just for fun, I let him loose under the moonlight to show off his cuteness. Watch his legs jiggle as he tap danced through the canopy and beyond! Everyday I'm Shufflin~! xD

Shortly later, I learnt that honey bees actually do the Waggle Dance to communicate with their friends in the colony! It is interesting to know that through dance steps, they can tell their mates where to find new food.

Shake it baby~! xD ♥

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Yay Stickers~!

Wheeee~! I've got stickers! I won these pretties from a sticker giveaway during one of Runaway's live stream on Facebook. So kawaii~!

Thanks Runaway~! xD


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